Legal Question in Criminal Law in Florida

Neighbor was given a key to our house to dog sit after puppies were whelped, then she made off with over 10,000 in jewelry, in 1 months time. We are pressing charges on her, she took everything to a cash for gold broker, they say it's all melted down after 15 days of the sale to them, but they gave her account list of all items to the police, all they seem to require is a thumb print and a statement that she is the owner of the property, the description of all the 20+ items listed are very nondescript, that's like insult to injury. How are we going to recoup our losses, We know her family has no money, can I make a claim against the gold buyer? This was pretty reckless from March 4th to May 5th, for them to have kept up the business trip after trip, many different dates she did business with them we noticed it missing may 19th and called the police, cash for gold literally paid penny's on the dollar, never cared nor took pictures, just was happy to pay her and move on with all the diamonds and gold. What can we do about all of this, besides make a felon out of her? We don't know the process to all of this, please advise... Thankyou


Asked on 5/30/10, 8:29 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Craig Epifanio Craig Epifanio, P.A.

Your best remedy is probably the one that will not satisfy you. You need to have the state prosecute her. You can then force her to pay restitution to you. It may take a long time but that is probably your only hope. As far as pursuiing the pawn broker, I don't think you can but I can't advise you on that since it is a different area of law.

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Answered on 5/31/10, 7:57 am


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